Representatives of the overseas, interstate and coastal shipping companies met at the rooms of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation ...
Article : 293 wordsShipowners drew up plans this morning for controlling the services or National Volunteer Workers and work was started ...
Article : 144 wordsThat any peace terms must include the honoring of the Government's pledge to the voluntary workers, was stated today by the ...
Article : 79 wordsTwenty-three volunteers began work this morning in discharging a vessel lying at the Mount Lyell Company's private wharf at Yarraville. The ...
Article : 215 wordsSo far the Melbourne Electric Company has received no instructions from the Government in regard to the cutting off of electric supplies. Up till ...
Article : 87 wordsIndustrial peace was not brought nearer by the conference between the New South Wales Cabinet and the Union Defence Committee yesterday. ...
Article : 144 wordsManufacturing grocers have fair supplies of coal. How far they will be permitted to utilise them they could not say today. On the occasion of the ...
Article : 148 wordsPassed by the Federal Executive council last night, the new regulations [?]ommandeering coal under the War [?]recautioas Act and reviving the ...
Article : 362 wordsBy an Executive Council order today the Government is empowered to commandeer all horses and horse drawn vehicles. ...
Article : 74 wordsMembers of the Melbourne Wharf Laborers' Union are anxiously awaiting the return from Sydney of Messrs. E. Jones (president) and J. Williams ...
Article : 153 wordsAnxiety is being felt in regard to the meat supply. There is no actual shortage at present, but with volunteer slaughtermen at the abattoirs and the ...
Article : 237 wordsWith the aid of volunteer workers, it is hoped to re-establish steamer communication with Tasmania tomorrow. ...
Article : 158 wordsAlthough it was only announced this morning that the Naval Department was likely to commandeer all coal, applicants for supplies were early at the ...
Article : 74 wordsMr G. W. Fuller, the Acting Premier, declared today that the Government would honor its promises to the volunteers who had come forward. ...
Article : 347 wordsSupplies of oil are plentiful. There are stocks on hand sufficient for requirements, even under abnormal conditions, for three or four months. ...
Article : 185 words"It reflects discredit on the whole of Australia," said Sir Robert Best, M.H.R., speaking at the Town Hall recruiting meeting in the lunch hour ...
Article : 504 wordsThough it had been published that the steamship Tarcoola, with a cargo of sugar, had boon ordered to Adelaide, the agents for the vessel said ...
Article : 200 wordsShipowners concerned took strong exception to the remarks made by Mr J. Cadden, vigilance officer of the Wharf Laborers' Union, in a statement ...
Article : 487 wordsA start was made this morning with the work of coaling transports by volunteer labor. Arrangements have been made by the ...
Article : 104 wordsUp to lunch time today the outstanding feature of the market for shares in the Barrier silver mining companies was steadiness. ...
Article : 100 wordsNo official intimation of a strike had seen received by Mr G. M'Leish, mine manager of the State Coal Mine, this morning. But he was aware that the ...
Article : 98 wordsReplying to a question this afternoon, Mr W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, said it was not intended by the Federal Government to allow any increase in ...
Article : 87 wordsThere are now 2500 country volunteers in camp on the Sydney Cricket Ground. The various industries at which the ...
Article : 113 wordsThere was a long meeting of the diners' Union this morning, but the officials declined to make any statement as to its result. ...
Article : 114 wordsA recruiting train from the north brought 92 enlisted men to Sydney yesterday. At first, the train to take the recruiting party from West ...
Article : 59 wordsSo far no action in the direction of calling a public meeting of citizens to strengthen the hands of the Government in the present crisis has been ...
Article : 55 wordsIn Victoria Dock this morning the work of loading an overseas steamship was begun by volunteer labor. The cargo consisted principally of wool and ...
Article : 120 wordsTWO OF A KIND: THANK HEAVEN, SOMEBODY'S HELPING US IN RUSSIA Ben Strange's cartoons in "The Western Mail," Perth, have the merit of directness, and the drawing in the War Page of "The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsAt an aggregate meeting of miners held in Kitchener Hall, Adamstown, this, morning, it was announced that a policy had boon drafted by the Coal ...
Article : 77 wordsUp to a late this afternoon the railway Commissioners had not been [?]formed of the result of the meeting of mines which was to have been ...
Article : 30 wordsVolunteer workers engaged in waterside work will soon he encamped on the new Zoological Gardens at Taronga Park, which have been taken over by ...
Article : 175 wordsMembers of the Sawmill and Timber Yards Employes' Union ceased work at all mills and yards in the city and suburbs this morning. ...
Article : 100 wordsVolunteer labor has again been flocking to enrol in the National Service day. Over 500 letters of application arrived ...
Article : 449 wordsDaily 200 additional workmen are despatched from Spencer street to Brooklyn, and the Railway Department has put on an extra train to ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Tue 21 Aug 1917, Page 1
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